It has been 4 years since the last collection! Can you believe it? It's about time for a new one!
Obviously, soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's Tedium Incarnate to one person will be another person's Passion and Delight. Thus NO INSULT IS INTENDED in the choice of material here. Lists, tables, and repetitive material are especially appropriate. You may NOT nominate other Librivoxers' existing chapters for inclusion. However, should you wish to read your own version of something you've found particularly insipid, please feel free..

How to claim a part, and 'how it all works' hereYou don't need to announce what you're reading, unless you're doubtful it will be boring enough, or if you are not ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN of its public domain status. Please post here if you want to confirm that, or if you'd like to offer or receive suggestions for something to work on, or need help with dividing a longer document..

What are the requirements for the reading?
Readings should last between 30-70 minutes. (Longer than that -- please divide it into two parts. Shorter readings are unlikely to give listeners enough time to be relaxed.) Please read in a Calm and Placid manner. If you find your chosen topic too exciting, and that affects your serene speed or tranquil tone, please consider donating your recording to another Collection. Readings may be contributed in ANY LANGUAGE but the text must be potentially dull to other speakers of that language..

Where do I find texts?
There's a list in the next post of some I thought suitable, but you're welcome to choose any text that's in the Public Domain. If in doubt, please get it checked by posting here FIRST (particularly if you are reading from print and not an online source.) You are welcome to pick a couple of chapters of a book, or a particularly slow section from a scientific paper, or divide the material in another way you find appropriate. Please do NOT change the content itself or the order of what has been written.This is probably the only opportunity that many utterly banal texts will ever have to be recorded by us, so choose wisely.CLICK HERE to see what was included in volume 1. CLICK HERE to see what was included in volume 2. CLICK HERE to see what was included in volume 3..

Is there a deadline?
No, this will be catalogued when it reaches 20 entries, or readers' interest is lost for more than 3 months consecutively, whichever comes first.

SUBMIT your recording:
Please upload your finished recording using the LibriVox uploader (when your upload is complete, you will receive a link - please copy to post in this thread):http://librivox.org/login/uploader
If you have trouble reading the image above, please send a private message to any adminYou'll need to select the MC, which for this project is: TriciaG.
*If this doesn't work, or you have questions, please check our How To Send Your Recording wiki page..

POST the following information in this thread:

• The link you copied from the uploader to your file
• Name of your story
• Author (birth year - death year)
• Translator if applicable (birth year - death year)
• Source from which you read (e.g. Gutenberg etext url)
• Length in minutes:seconds of your file
• If this is your first Librivox recording, I will also need your name as you would like it to appear on the catalogue page and the URL of your homepage if you have one and would like it linked to your name on the catalogue page.

"I found these at Project Gutenberg by searching under various terms such as 'history', 'lecture', 'essays', 'analysis' etc. However, there are likely to be all kinds of gems with quite interesting names, which are actually akin to ditchwater in practice, so feel free to do whatever you like!"Texts on Project Gutenberg (search for them by title key word):

A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe, Being A Graduated Course Of Analysis For The Use Of Students And All Those Engaged In The Examination Of Metallic Combinations

Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1889

A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition

The Natural History of Wiltshire

Elements of Civil Government

Greek in a Nutshell

Fires and Firemen: from the Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Vol XXXV No. 1, May 1855

The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations

Book 3, Chapter 2 of the Hunchback of Notre Dame would make a good piece, IMHO. "A Bird's-eye View of Paris" describes the layout of Paris - its principal bridges, neighborhoods, character of the buildings in each neighborhood. And I think it might have talked about the history of the city's borders, how it grew out from its center. It almost put me to sleep while listening to it (although the reader did an excellent job with it). 9500 words, or about an hour of recording. The PG html version has a lot of character errors in the French, on my computer anyway. The plain text version looks correct. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2610

Oh I'm so excited there will be another insomnia collection! I often use Librivox recordings to fall asleep (Federalist Papers has been a years long project) but when I'm having high anxiety, the insomnia collections are the big guns! Those town directories work every time!

Very excited at the idea of contributing to one. Will have to watch for a good piece to use!